How matching chemical signals in two distant ancient oceans show the end-Permian crisis was a single, connected planetary event. A team of scientists collects samples...

Dormancy enables microbes to withstand periods of environmental harshness. It occurs throughout diverse ecosystems and spans vast timescales, and could play an important role in shaping the co-ev...

A new model accurately reconstructs Earth’s past icehouses and indicates there’s no one driver behind them.

Exceptionally preserved organic-walled microfossils of the Svanbergfjellet Formation, Svalbard document the diversity of eukaryotes in a Tonian (1000–720 myr ago) shallow sea. We review this fossil La...

Nuage - le Nuage de l'OSU Pytheas

Dissolved carbon dioxide may have bubbled up from magma far below the surface, contributing to prolonged warming.